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fileIsEOF

Determines whether ColdFusion has reached the end of the file while reading it.

fileIsEOF(file)

returns boolean

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
file	any	Yes		The file object.

Simple usage syntax

Call fileIsEOF on a file object and save the result to a variable.

fileObj = fileOpen(expandPath('./file.txt');
isEndOfFile = fileIsEOF(fileObj);

Using fileIsEOF to loop over all lines of a text file

Simplified example of using fileIsEOF to determine when all lines have been read from a file. Error handling omitted for clarity.

// Error handling omitted for clarity.

// open a file for reading
fileObj = fileOpen(expandPath('./file.txt'), "read");

// read each line until we read the end of the file.
// fileIsEOF(fileObj) == false until we've read in the last line.
while (!fileIsEOF(fileObj)) {

	lineContent = fileReadLine(fileObj);

	// do something with content of each line
}

// end of file reached, close the file handle
fileClose(fileObj);

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